Flipside Publishing has partnered up with the 2012 Summer Komikon to hold a 24-Hour Comic Creation contest, with three winners receiving publishing contracts with Flipside Publishing, for digital releases of their comics. Registration will take place on April 25, 2012 to May 16, 2012. Komixathon itself will be held between noon of May 19, 2012 to noon of May 20, 2012. Registered users will receive a username and password which will allow them to upload their comics to Flipside’s servers during those two days. Interested participants can email adam@flipside.ph to register. You can read more details here.
Komikon-Flipreads 24 Hour Komixathon
On April - 26 - 2012
Reminder: Komikon 2011 is Tomorrow
On November - 18 - 2011
Lest anyone forget, the annual Philippine Comic/Komiks Convention, or Komikon, will be held tomorrow, Saturday, from 10AM to 7PM at the Bayanihan Center in Pasig (across Pioneer Supermarket). Don’t miss out on the cornucopia of indie comic offerings, not to mention what may be your only chance to get a physical copy of High Society. I’ll be at the Flipside Digital Content booth with less than a hundred copies of High Society ready to sell, and I might have to leave at around 5PM so that’s your window of opportunity. My partner in crime, the amazing Hannah Buena, will be at the con as well, but–being as in demand as she is–she’ll be flitting from booth to booth, so your best time to get your copies signed by Hannah will be sometime after lunch, maybe around 3PM.
Beneath the cut is a map of the venue–Flipside is at E-31 to E-32, so that’s where I’ll be. Looking forward to seeing everyone there! (And here’s a map to the Bayanihan Center if you need directions.) And, of course, there will be many other komiks at the con, most of which are only available during conventions. Macoy has a partial list and Flipgeeks has some previews as does the 100 Araw ng Komiks Facebook community.
High Society News: Giveaway, Komikon, iTunes, Reviews
On November - 15 - 2011
Bonus Art from "High Society" artist Hannah Buena
Some news on the High Society front: first off, the comic is part of the Kindle Komix Krazy giveaway of Flipreads. You can click the link for more detailed instructions, but basically all you need to do is send in a picture of yourself using a Kindle or a Kindle App, write a bit about your love of local comics, and you’ll get High Society on the Kindle for free. If you’d rather pay for your copy–and hey, I certainly wouldn’t turn that down–High Society is also currently going for a reduced price of $0.99 (US price) for a limited time.
Edit: If you’re reading this before November 18, Tina is also giving out a free Kindle copy of High Society to someone who comments on her review of the comic.
If you’d rather get your copies from the iTunes store,you can get your copy here. As I also mentioned yesterday, you can also get an ePub or PDF copy from Flipreads, the new Philippine digital bookstore, here.
Of course, there are also readers who’d prefer a physical copy of High Society (whether instead of or in addition to the digital one), and if so, do pass by the Flipside table at this Saturday’s (November 19) annual Komikon, at the Bayanihan Center in Pasig. We’ll be selling a limited number of photocopied versions of High Society, and Hannah and I should both be at the table at some point (probably not for the whole day) for anyone who wants signed copies. And hey, you know what? If you bring your digital copy of High Society on your ereading device (Kindle, iDevice, Android, Laptop, etc.) I’ll sell you the physical copy at a discounted price.
For prospective readers still on the fence about whether or not High Society is for them, you can check out reviews from some of the country’s most popular komiks review sites: Flipgeeks has comments from Norby Ela and Earl Maghirang; Mark Rosario, on the other hand, reviews High Society at Planet Markus.
Edit: We’ve also begun to receive reviews from intrepid book bloggers, such as Tina over at One More Page, one of the few readers who’ve seen both the old and new versions of “High Society”–lucky for us, she liked both versions.
Bert Lopez at Komikon
On November - 12 - 2011
2011 Komikon Awards: Open for Voting
On September - 15 - 2011
The voting period for the 2011 Komikon Awards, which has been rolling out nominations for the past few weeks, has officially begun and will last for one month, terminating on October 15, 2011.
You can click here for instruction on how to register/vote, and go here for the actual casting of your virtual ballots. Here are the links to the categories and their respective nominees:
BEST FILIPINO INTERNATIONAL ARTIST
BEST COMIC: Graphic Novel /Anthology
Week 2: Sandaang Araw ng Komiks (100 Days of Komiks)
On August - 2 - 2011
The Sandaang Araw ng Komiks (100 Days of Komiks) event entered its second month yesterday, and the focus has shifted from personal creations (i.e. creators plugging their own works) to celebrating the works of other creators. Here are the guidelines for August, as per Joanah Tinio Calingo:
For the month of August, all posts will be about:
a) Komiks artists and authors (other than your self). Whether they’re still active or not. It can be in a form of trivia, or interviews (not necessarily done by you), or link to their sites. Posters are encouraged to promote komiks artsts outside their own group (pero pwede pa rin na kagrupo kung artist posts lang)
b) Other existing komiks. If you have reviews, or recommendations, now is the time to post it. It can also be in a form of links to an image of the cover or the pages. Titles for recommendations and reviews, should of course, be still available in the shops or cons, or online (or else where where people can get them, like kindle). Also, recommendations should be for titles outside your own comic group.
c) The post can also be a fan art of any local komiks character (this can also be a form of recommendation for existing titles).
The goal for August is to introduce komiks artists (veterans and newbies, mainstream and indie) and their works to other people, and to your circle (since everybody in your circle already knows that you are making komiks).
This is also a chance to know other artists, their works and their contributions. And also, to introduce the new gen artists to komiks readers. It’s also a heads-up if you’re going to local komiks events. At least alam niyo na kung sino sila.
Format –> 100 Araw ng Komiks: (post/link/etc.)
[Logo c/o Rommel Estanislao ]
Sandaang Araw ng Komiks (100 Days of Komiks)
On June - 30 - 2011
Around a week back, Joanah Tinio Calingo (Cresci Prophecies, Kanto Inc.) related an experience at the recently concluded 2011 Toy Con that made her realize how limited the mainstream awareness of komiks and komiks creators truly is. To help promote local comics and their creators, she’s calling on other creators, as well as komiks readers and allies, to participate in a hundred day event to raise the profile of the komiks industry, aptly called “100 Araw ng Komiks”, which will pave the way for the end of the year Komikon in November.
The event begins on July 1, tomorrow, and for the month of July the theme seems to be “Your Own Komiks” in the sense that komiks creators are encouraged to post information about their komiks creations on their blogs/twitter/facebook pages once per day. Those who don’t create komiks can participate by posting komiks related information/trivia once per day.
You can go here or here for additional information (in Filipino).
[Logo c/o Rommel Estanislao ]
Summer Komikon 2011 Impressions and Photodump
On April - 17 - 2011
The 2011 Summer Komikon took place yesterday at the Bayanihan Center. I didn’t have enough time to go around as much as I usually do, but here are a few pictures and some thoughts on the event.
The turnout seemed about equal to what it was at the Bahay ng Alumni, which was a pleasant surprise and is a testament to a bang up job that organizers and advocates did getting the word out. I found the Bayanihan Center to be an improvement over the Bahay ng Alumni in most respects: the air condition really helped to make the event more comfortable (and hence more accessible to the more casual fan or newcomer not willing to bathe in sweat – their own and that of assorted strangers’ – in order to browse the wares). It also seemed to me to be easier to secure – the Bahay ng Alumni had a lot of ingress/egress points. I didn’t notice any food/drink concessionaires, however, which could be a downside to those not willing to cross the street to the restaurants around Pioneer supermarket.
I also wish that the hall itself had been made to look a bit more festive – the hall doesn’t have a lot of character, and the wedding reception type music that was playing (at least when I arrived) seemed out of place. I’m not looking for giant Kubori Kikiam blimps – although, hey, that’d be awesome – but few more banners, posters, and standees would have helped give the convention more of a “convention” feel, especially since cosplayers are usually sparse in comparison to other cons.
Summer Komikon 2011
On April - 13 - 2011
It’s summer time, and you know what that means – another Summer Komikon, where the Philippine comics/komiks scene gathers to sell their wares and celebrate the medium we love. This year, the even will be held at the Bayanihan Center in Pasig (near Pioneer supermarket, if you know that area) and not at the Bahay ng Alumni – you can get a map here. The event starts at 10am on April 16 and is a one day affair, so clear your calendars – many of the komiks sold at these cons have limited print runs and are only available at these cons, so snap them up!
Here’s some additional info from Krisis Komix:
This year’s theme is “Bayanihan: Komiks Moving Onwards” and the main highlights of the event include:
* the opening of the nominations for the 3rd Komikon Awards for Komikon 2011;
* exhibit and guest spotlight on women cartoonists;
* release of the first Summer Komikon Tabloid;
* screening of Animahenasyon 2007 and Animahenasyon 2008 winning entries;
* book launches of new comics titles (28 titles from the Indie Komiks Tiange);
* various comics-themed competitions
An Assessment of Komikon 2010 at the POC
On November - 17 - 2010
My first article on the recently concluded 6th Komikon is now up on the POC. It’s a general overview of my impressions of the event (not focused on the komiks content, that comes later) with a video of the last ten minutes of the second Sulyap contributors panel with Rommel Estanislao, Tepai Pascual, Macoy Tang, and Josel Nicolas. (Man, I wish some other enterprising soul recorded the panels at conventions… I think a repository of the words and experiences of creators is just as vital as an archive for the komiks themselves.)
In any case, enjoy!
